Comment by electromech

16 hours ago

> My real worry is that this is going to make mid level technical tornadoes...

Yes! Especially in the consulting world, there's a perception that veterans aren't worth the money because younger engineers get things done faster.

I have been the younger engineer scoffing at the veterans, and I have been the veteran desperately trying to get non-technical program managers to understand the nuances of why the quick solution is inadequate.

Big tech will probably sort this stuff out faster, but much of the code that processes our financial and medical records gets written by cheap, warm bodies in 6 month contracts.

All that was a problem before LLMs. Thankfully I'm no longer at a consulting firm. That world must be hell for security-conscious engineers right now.